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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 17h

why must everything be so fucking stupid

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 22h

no option but to pack the court

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29/09/2026

There should be a name for the diseases you contract in the first year of your child's life. I don't think I've had a sore throat this bad since I was a kid

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey is the kind of guy who thinks he’s less of a man because he’s never raped a woman

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DSA (((Spreadsheet Campaign))) Caucus, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's trying to deliberately wreck the grand jury and get the victim SLAPP-ed. Vile stuff.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is why multiple classes of shares should be illegal. Markets don't regulate themselves.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 29/09/2026

Pretty sure you could show genocide deniers literal scenes from Schindler’s List with Palestinians subbed in and they’d find a way to rationalize it

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the name is CHUMP THEORY mattweiner.net/On%20Chum%20...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people who decide the US foreign policy consensus on Israel and Palestine genuinely can't imagine a better settlement than South Africa circa 1984, and once you realize that a lot of these baffling arguments start to make more sense.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/09/2026

Sorry way too many of you are liking this and it is uncomfortably close to boomerslop

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ryan grim and matt stoller are single-issue pro-sexual violence voters

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/09/2026

How are Andy Beshear and Abigail Spanberger to the left of Gavin Newsom on trans rights

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

Ann Pierce
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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/09/2026

Kiddo definitely dinged on Friday and dumped all her stats into STA and CON. Been a weekend of physical milestones. Today she rode her bike all the way to the park, uphill

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 27/09/2026

who would choose Texas anyway

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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Behold the field wherein my fucks are sown; The earth lies bare—no single fuck has grown.

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Jeremey @jeremey1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bigger benefits from AI compared to beef

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 27/09/2026

One kid climbed a literal fucking mountain at 3.5 years old and the other is in the ER with croup. Mixed bag

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 27/09/2026

Unless he ends the war and somehow reopens the strait this will have roughly zero effect, cars will continue to become more fuel-efficient because consumers will demand it

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 27/09/2026

Still in awe at how good Bea Wolf is. Me: goddamn why do so many children’s authors have no ear for scansion The universe: oh hey…

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OH MY GOD WHAT A LION

Troy Jackson responded to a post that showed his texts insulting a Trump supporter with a donation link

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 26/09/2026

If you want to know what I think should happen to the DOGE bros, look through early Metallica album titles

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every day I have to teach kids that Congress holds the ‘power of the purse’ Turns out the power of the sword can straight up rob the purse when it so desires

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 26/09/2026

Christ, prepping for a hike as a family of four is a lot of work.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 26/09/2026

I do believe an LLM just got snippy with me. (There was an API error in the middle of a long task, and to prevent it from losing track of work I fed it the entire prompt again when restarting. Its response was…brusque.)

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 26/09/2026

Leeks are for people for whom onions and garlic are too adventurous send tweet

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 25/09/2026

They said no to the marshmallow again!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think I speak for all Democrats when I say who TF is this person, I have never heard of her.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what winning looks like

will not vote for Paxton.
Jennifer, 50, Republican, white, stay-at-home parent
I'm not voting for anybody. Nobody. I'm not voting for that.
Moderator, Kristen Soltis Anderson
TT TI

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 25/09/2026

3yo is shaping up to be an excellent rules lawyer and given my line of work it’s hard for me not to tacitly encourage it. Sure, you broke the spirit of the rule and you knew exactly what you were doing, but by gum you hewed to the letter! Hard not to crack a smile

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 25/09/2026

After sitting with it for a day, I think this is right but only in a narrow sense. LLMs may not “think,” but they do *reason*. They may not “understand,” but they do *model*. To the extent the “don’t anthropomorphize” edict extends even to reasoning and modeling, it is wrong.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Buying into a ludicrous fantasy vision of how immigration stops function in the real world is a moral choice, not a matter of cognitive horsepower. You don’t have to be terribly bright to grasp that’s not actually how things work; you just have to care.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 24/09/2026

You know how people go to Cuba and marvel at the classic cars people still maintain and drive there because they can't get American cars anymore? In 2050, the rest of the world will come here and marvel at the smoke-belching junkers we still drive around, and we'll have done it to ourselves.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 24/09/2026

I got a Milanese strap with my new Apple Watch and do hairy men just not wear these or what

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 24/09/2026

He’s 57, and I bet if you plotted “outcome in Trump admin cases” against “age at time of decision” for these Trump judges that nonetheless rule against Trump, you’d see something pretty interesting

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diego@estupido.fyi @estupido.fyi · 24/09/2026

this is the kind of person who has held away in bay area politics since time immemorial and they're crashing out now that they know their time is over. we will disempower this wickedness, root and branch, and a better world shall bloom out of their infinite tears

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Republicans don't sprint to the center like this! They double down. Unless that's not working anymore, even with their own voters, and they are flailing for answers.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23/09/2026

You voted for your daughter’s death and it should torment you until you meet your own

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

anyway the CBC will be adding three new seats this year because of DSA

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

Graham Platner was a deranged mercenary private boarding school phony with a Nazi tattoo who couldn't stop going on podcasts with idiots or allegedly assaulting women. There was no secret Jewish vampire cabal that took him down.

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Biden was a dime-store LBJ, send tweet

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"First as tragedy, then as farce" doesn't quite capture the distinction between "L'Etat, c'est moi" and "I am the [fire] code"

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